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ABSTRACTThis report presents a comprehensive review of the state of the art of direct-sequence communication systems. Although it is largely self-contained mathematically, the report presumes a thorough understanding of modern digital communications. To limit the report to approximately 200 pages, only the most vital aspects of the theory are emphasized, but the cited references provide many details and minor topics.
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PrefaceThis report presents a comprehensive review of the state of the art of direct-sequence communication systems. Although it is largely self-contained mathematically, the report presumes a thorough understanding of modern digital communications. To limit the report to approximately 200 pages, only the most vital aspects of the theory are emphasized, but the cited references provide many details and minor topics. Sections 1 and 2 cover the basic definitions and concepts and the fundamental properties of spreading sequences. Sections 3 and 4 derive the symbol error probabilities of coherent systems in the presence of tone or Gaussian interference. Methods of suppressing pulsed interference are analyzed in Section 5. In Section 6, the role of matched filters in direct-sequence systems is examined. Code synchronization, which is the most significant issue in the design of direct-sequence systems, is analyzed in Section 7. Several supplementary methods of rejecting narrowband interference are presented in Section 8. The detection of the existence of a direct-sequence signal by both an ideal receiver and the more practical wideband radiometer are analyzed in Section 9. Section 10 explains and develops the theory of direct-sequence code-division multi...